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GELT COMPLEX: Carter Snubbed, Bush Budget Blasted, Hillel Under Fire, The Orthodox Divide
Carter Snubbed Two of America’s three living former presidents will co-chair a committee in charge of celebrating Israel’s 60th anniversary, but the third, Jimmy Carter, apparently was not invited to take part. Carter did not get an invitation to be on the National Committee for Israel 60, according to a Jewish communal leader involved in…
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Winograd Report Uncovers Diplomatic Breakdown
Washington – In the final days of Israel’s war against Hezbollah in 2006, a series of miscommunications between Jerusalem and Washington played a decisive role in shaping the war’s outcome, according to the final report of the Winograd Commission released last week. The government-appointed commission found that Israeli disappointment at the wording of an American-brokered…
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Gaza Tensions Mount After Suicide Bombing
The conflict in Gaza heated up again Tuesday in response to a suicide bombing in the Israeli town of Dimona on Monday. Israel killed nine Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip, while Palestinians fired heavy barrages of rockets at southern Israel that moderately wounded a 14-year-old girl and lightly wounded several other civilians. Tuesday’s rocket…
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South Africa and Australia Battle Over Jewish Immigration
Sydney, Australia – South African Jewish leaders are fuming over a new initiative to help Jews immigrate to Australia from Africa. The initiative in question is Project Sydney, a joint effort of the New South Wales Jewish Communal Appeal and the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies that would help South African Jews who…
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Thirty Years in Fashion
HATE-CRIME HERO HONORED BY FOUNDATION FOR ETHNIC UNDERSTANDING “There is no such thing as a ‘good book,’ when people get killed over the book…. We all have a good book — the Bible, the Quran, the Old/New Testament,” said Leon Charney, an honoree at the December 12, 2007, benefit for the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding….
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Jews Follow Trend, Split Vote for Dems
Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama each won a stamp of approval from Jewish voters Tuesday, as both Democratic presidential contenders captured significant Jewish support in key primary contests. While Clinton laid claim to the overwhelming backing of Jewish communities in New Jersey and in her home state of New York, Obama won the…
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Touring the Old World: Ruth Ellen Gruber Explores Eastern Europe
For that quiet expatriate in each of us, Ruth Ellen Gruber is living a European dream. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1971, she went to Europe, spent 10 years as a United Press International correspondent and never returned to live in the United States. Now, with the release of her newly updated “Jewish Heritage…
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The Old Gray Mère: Does She… or Doesn’t She?
I apologize in advance for the possible vapidity of this column. In my next piece I will discuss my plan for Middle East Peace, the fate of the Jewish people in an age of rampant intermarriage, and Martin Buber. But right now, I’m anxious about my hair. It’s getting gray, and I am not happy…
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Jews Mix Their Votes
Hillary Clinton scored a big win among Jews in New York and New Jersey, but the picture was mixed in other Super Tuesday states. According to the latest exit polls, Clinton won big among Jews in her home state of New York, with 65 percent of the total compared to 33 percent for Obama. Clinton…
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Super Tuesday Snapshots: Obama’s Jewish Neighbors, Peace at the Caucuses, The FDR Vote, Satmar Feud, Tehrangeles’s Jewish Vote, Etc.
Chicago, Illinois Obama’s Jewish Neighbors Barack Obama may have a deadlock on at least one segment of the Jewish community: his neighbors. KAM Isaiah Israel, the oldest synagogue in Chicago, is directly across the street from Obama’s house. Members of KAM, a large Reform synagogue, report having seen the Illinois senator engaged in mundane activities…
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Fearing Repeat Of Durban, U.S. May Abandon Racism Summit
In what could be a major blow to the United Nations, the United States is pulling back its involvement in an upcoming U.N. anti-racism conference due to concern that it would stir up the same anti-Israel sentiments that marked the first such conference, the Forward has learned. “We are not participating, because we are concerned…
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